Findings of the US Climate Change Science Program While the vast amount of media coverage of Obama’s speech on national security today will focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, I would note what Obama himself says is the greatest single security threat to the US (and the world): This immediate danger is eclipsed only by the long-term threat from climate change, …
The New Joeker cover is catching shit from the Rebuplican Right; we think you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. “Satire, like the razor keen, is best when scarcely felt or seen.” —Terry Kruger, after unknown IF YOU LOOKED CAREFULLY, you could probably spot the first satirical drawing by a human being in one of the rooms at Lascaux; no doubt some …
[T]he ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. –Marshall McLuhan Notwithstanding that people who suffer damage to the right parahippocampal gyrus are incapable of registering sarcasm (sometimes equated with satire, an arguable difference being the use of irony by the former to merely demean versus …
Cindy takes John Sidney out for his first spin on the InnerTubes, part of the new high-tech frontier of Teh Internets he’s getting hip to. McCain said he was pretty sure certain he was “feeling the urge to email” now, and that the big GOP Elephant tube felt “really good” between his legs. “The internet is not something that you …
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger flexed his Terminator muscles in George W. Bush‘s face this morning on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopolous: “They just didn’t believe in it or they didn’t believe that they should do anything about it, since China is not doing anything about it and since India is not willing to do the same thing, so why …
A Mind’s Eye View of Star Trek’s The Game In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Game (Episode 106, first aired 10/28/91), the crew of the Enterprise becomes totally addicted to a virtual reality game brought aboard the ship from an alien world. A slick pair of VR specs sends visual imagery to brain, energizing the brain’s serotonin and …
McCain climbs Mount Flipflopapalooza (click it) Johnnie Sidney McCain made his now famous infamous semi-annual monthly weekly pilgrimage to the pungent lava fields of Mount Flipflopapalooza today, and, donning the elaborate headgear of the soulless political automatons of the American archipelago, delivered the latest in an amazing eruption of ratfurker reversals, or in MSM public parlance, “flip flops.” The undeniable …
